Basic Word Structure – Part II
Suffixes
Cardiac-Having to do with/(Pertaining) to the heart
Neural –Pertaining to, or having to do with nerves.
Arthralgia – Joint pain
Cephalgia – Head pain
Leukocyte – White cell
Erythrocyte – Red cell
Thrombocyte – Clotting cell
Nephrectomy – Removal of kidney
Leukemia – White blood condition
Carcinogenic – Producing cancer
Pathogenic – Producing disease
Iatrogenic – Produced from treatment
Electroencephalogram – A record of electricity inside
the head.
Gastric – Having to do with the stomach
Neurological – Having to do with the study of nerves.
Excision – Process of cutting out
Gynecologist – A specialist in the study of female
reproductive system.
Cystitis – Inflammation of the urinary bladder.
Endocrinology – Study of the glands that secrete into
the blood stream (body)
Hepatoma – Tumor of the liver
Biopsy – Process of viewing life/tissue
Nephrosis – Abnormal condition of the kidneys.
Leukocytosis – Abnormal level of white blood cells.
Enteropathy – Disease of the small intestine
Adenopathy – Disease of a gland
Gastroscope – Instrument for viewing the stomach
Gastroscopy – Process of viewing the stomach
Prognosis – State of knowledge before things happen.
Neurotomy – Process of cutting out nerve tissue.
Gastroenterology – The study of the stomach and
small intestine.
PREFIXES
Anemia – Condition of being without blood
Autopsy – Self viewing
Diagnosis – Complete knowledge of condition
Endocrinologist – Specialist in the study of glands that
secrete into body (blood stream)
Epigastric – Pertaining to above the stomach
Epidermis – Above the middle layer of skin
Excision – Process of cutting out
Exocrine – Glands that secrete to outside the body
Hyperglycemia – Condition of the blood being high in
sugar.
Hypogastric – Pertaining to being below the stomach
Incision – Process of cutting into
Pericardium – Structure surrounding heart
Prognosis – State of knowing before
Resection – Process of cutting back
Retrogastric – Having to do with being behind the
stomach
Subhepatic – Having to do with being below the liver
Transgastric – Having to do with being through the
stomach
EXERCISES
1. Word Beginings – Prefixes
2. Word Endings – Suffixes
3. Word foundations – Root Words
MATCHING
1. Kidney = REN
2. Disease = PATH
3. Eye = OPTHALM
4. To Cut = SECT
5. Nose = RHIN
6. Flesh = SARC
7. Mind = PSYCH
8. Urinary Tract = UR
9. Bone = OSTE
10.
X-Rays = RADI
11.
Clotting = THROMB
12.
Tumor = ONC
MATCHING SUFFIXES
1. ALGIA = Pain
2. ION = Process of
3. EMIA = Blood Condition
4. GRAM = Record of
5. SCOPE = Instrument to visually examine
6. OSIS = Abnormal condition
7. ECTOMY = Removal, Excision
8. GENIC = Producing
9. PATHY = Disease condition
10.
TOMY = Incision
11.
ITIS = Inflammation
12.
CYTE = Cell
SELECT THE CORRECT TERM
1. CARCINOGENIC
2. LEUKOCYTOSIS
3. HEPATOMA
4. ARTHRALGIA
5. ENDOCRINE GLANDS
6. EXOCRINE GLANDS
7. NEURALGIA
8. CYSTITIS
9. HEMATOMA
10.
LEUKEMIA
11.
IATROGENIC
12.
ENTEROPATHY
PART P – MATCHING from word bank
1. OSTEOARTHRITIS
2. BIOPSY
3. NEPRHOLOGIST
4. NEUROPATHY
5. PATHOGENIC
6. THROMBOSIS
7. ONCOLOGIST
8. THROMBOCYTE
9. PROGNOSIS
10.
PSYCHIATRIST